Featured

post thumbnail

Superstitions In The Life Of A Pro Athlete

The desire to control fate or to simply have a way of sticking with a winning method, superstitions have been around professional sports for a long time.

If any group has a reason to be superstitious, it’s professional athletes.

Your livelihood relies on your ability to consistently replicate physical motions. It’s hardly surprising that you don’t [...]

July 23rd, 2008 | PAO | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Football Helmet Safety Stays Ahead Of The Game

Sixty years after helmets became standard equipment in the National Football League, two innovative manufacturers are jostling for dominance along the line of scrimmage.

Riddell and Schutt Sports are butting heads to establish a position of prominence in the field of helmet safety. From the high school level to NFL stadiums, these two manufacturers are using [...]

July 22nd, 2008 | PAO | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

California’s Manhattan Beach Becoming Popular Residential Destination For Pro Athletes

Richard Montgomery immediately recognized the tall blond in the tennis dress in the deli section of his local Ralphs, so he walked up and introduced himself to tennis star Maria Sharapova.

Montgomery, who had heard she lived in Manhattan Beach, told Sharapova he was a City Council member and wondered if she would donate something to [...]

July 21st, 2008 | PAO | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Collecting Autographs Common Among Pro Athletes

Albert Pujols woke up a napping Barry Bonds before last year’s All-Star Game in San Francisco, extended a baseball and pen and asked for his autograph. Bonds obliged and dozed off again while Pujols chased down more players.

“Every time I run into a guy I try to get him,” said Pujols, the first baseman for [...]

July 20th, 2008 | PAO | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

NHL Deputy Commissioner Defends Free Agent Spending

After over $300 million was spent on the opening day of NHL free agency on July 1, some people wondered what the lockout accomplished. NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly took to the airwaves in Vancouver to defend the league.

Daly told the Team 1040 radio in Vancouver that losing the entire 2004-05 season was worth it [...]

July 17th, 2008 | PAO | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Sources: Roger Clemens Received HGH In Mail From Kirk Radomski

Confessed drug supplier Kirk Radomski has provided documentary evidence to the government showing that he shipped drugs to the Texas home of Roger Clemens, who is under investigation for perjury after telling Congress he never used steroids or human growth hormone.

According to sources with close knowledge of the investigation, Radomski has discovered shipping receipts for [...]

July 16th, 2008 | PAO | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

NFLPA Issues Grow As NFL Labor Talks Near

In the latest sign of a growing rift in the NFL Players Association, the group’s powerful executive committee excluded Executive Director Gene Upshaw and player President Kevin Mawae from at least one meeting to discuss finding a new leader, according to numerous sources and an internal union e-mail.

In addition, some members of the committee are [...]

July 14th, 2008 | PAO | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Wall Street Philosophy Transforms Tampa Bay Rays

You have come in search of a secret and instead find men willing to talk.

It sounds like an invitation, but really it’s a challenge. The pursuit of a story still waiting to be fully told.

Just how did the Tampa Bay Rays go from one of the least successful franchises in history to sitting atop baseball’s [...]

July 13th, 2008 | PAO | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Estate Tax Threatens NFL’s Old Guard Of Owners

Where the possibility of a stake in the Steelers being sold is cause for panic in Pittsburgh, the changing of the old guard is old hat in the NFL.

Now that the days of Jack Kent Cooke, Leon Hess and Art Modell have given way to those of Daniel Snyder, Woody Johnson and Steve Bisciotti, some [...]

July 11th, 2008 | PAO | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Brandon Jennings’ Decision To Play In Europe Could Eliminate NBA “One And Done” Rule

High school basketball star Brandon Jennings’ decision to bypass a one-year college commitment and instead sign a professional contract in Europe has trend-setting potential and could help end the NBA’s so-called “one-and-done” requirement for elite prep players, the leader of the NBA players’ union said Wednesday.

“I continue to be against an age limit, I’m against [...]

July 10th, 2008 | PAO | 0 comments | Continued